Air race a success - Taylor Daily Press | The Taylor Municipal Airport hosted the fifth annual Rocket 100 Air Race with over 40 pilots from Texas to California to Canada taking part. ...
No airshow for Dawson Creek in 2011 – CJDC | Dawson creek City Council decided that it will pass on hosting next year's air show, unless corporate sponsors step in to foot the bill. ...
2010 Blue Angels Homecoming Airshow by joekates | The 2010 Blue Angels Homecoming Airshow was the latest of a long line of grand finales that the Naval Flight Demonstration Squadron has presented, and with it comes mixed emotions. Sadly, the final performances of the year means that ...
Our view: Memorial - Anchorage Daily News | Last summer, right before the Arctic Thunder air show, four airmen died in the crash of a C-17 cargo jet on a flight in preparation for the show. ...
Open-air Aircraft Museum to be Open in Irkutsk in 2011 - Russia-InfoCenter | Open-air Museum of Aircrafts will be opened in Irkutsk for the 350th anniversary since the city's foundation to be marked in September, 2011. ...
This Enormous Flying Boat Made Transcontinental History, 75 Years Ago Today [Techversaries] from Gizmodo by Sam Biddle | The China Clipper left San Francisco as a huge seaplane full of mail—110,000 pieces of it. But was responsible for the first transpacific flight in history, and became one of the world's first technological celebrities. More »
The Polish Aviation Museum - The Polish Air Museum (Muzeum Lotnictwa Polskiego) may not be one museum that every tourist wants to go to, but if you like aviation history and old airplanes, it's worth a visit. It is in a suburb of Krakow at a historic airfield about ...
Class of 2010 – Robert Mitchell from San Diego Air & Space Museum Blog by bbernasconi | The biographical information below was compiled by Nelson Chase, Assistant Archivist, for the 2010 International Air & Space Hall of Fame Gala. For more information on the Museum's Library and Archives, click here. You can also view our new online Air & Space Hall of Fame exhibit by clicking here…
Warbird T-Shirt Quilt from Another Time by Dan Linn | In this day and age of reuse and recycle it is always fun to see something repurposed, especially when it pertains to our own personal interests. My mom is an avid quilter. I grew up staying warm in the winter months under her handiwork, and over the years our family has shared her interest in quilting. As a matter of fact, we even owned a small quilt shop years ago. It was a lot of fun learning how to run a small business, and have the opportunity to meet new people who shared the love of quilting…
Flight tests of a Mono Tiltrotor (MTR) - Flight Test Video#1 - Video clips from Mono tiltrotor functional flight demonstrations…
Today In Aviation History – November 23 « Calgary Recreational and ... by bikeal | Today In Aviation History – November 23. 23 11 2010. The sole Vought V-173 in test flight. In 1942... Dubbed "Flying Flapjack," the most radical conventionally-engined aircraft ever built makes its 1st flight when Chance Vought test ...
Space Tourism - a final frontier worth exploring? - Business Green | That's a significant discrepancy, given Ross's estimate that conventional large-scale rocketry, as used by the Space Shuttle and European Ariane programs, ...
Episode 124 – Body Scanners & Cougars, Oh My! from Airplane Geeks Podcast by thegeeks@airplanegeeks.com (Airplane Geeks) Guest Kelly Skyles is the National Safety and Security Coordinator for the Association of Professional Flight Attendants which represents about 17,000 American Airlines Flight Attendants. We talk about the past week's aviation news, especially all the recent airport security problems, and David has his This Week in Aviation history segment. Steve and Grant from the Plane Crazy Down Under podcast sent their Australia Desk report and Pieter Johnson brings us his latest Across the Pond segment. Plus, Harriet drops by to say hello! The week's aviation news…
Tactics Over Technology: The Thach Weave from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | One little known aspect of the June 1942 Battle of Midway was that it wasn't just the turning point in the Pacific War that started to roll back the Japanese Empire, but it also was a turning point in fighter tactics that changed the way air combat was conducted. At the start of the Second World War, US Navy fighter squadrons had eighteen aircraft that were divided into six sections of three planes each- each section was composed of a flight leader and two wingmen. However, well before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Navy fighter squadrons VF-2 and VF-5 experimented with two-plane sections with a flight leader and a single wingman…
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
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US Army's Golden Knights in shining armor take to the skies - KENS 5 TV
Among the stellar acts that took the skies was the United States Army's parachute team called the Golden Knights. ...
Published in Septemeber 2010, by the DeAgostini (one of the most important Italian publishing houses) with the contribution of Aviator Edizioni, my latest book, “Frecce Tricolori – un volo lungo 50 anni” represents the official publication of the Italian Air Force for the 50th Anniversary of the Frecce Tricolori. The book in Italian and English text is a spectacular hardcovered ...
2010 Reno Air Races Gallery Added from Randy Rothhaar Photography
A gallery with over 1,100 new images from the 2010 Reno Air Races has been added to the Airshow section of the site today. I really enjoyed my first trip to the air races this year and look forward to shooting them again in 2011. ...
My Mother Had Wings - Air & Space Magazine
The daughter of a WASP tells her mother's tale.
Moments and Milestones: Birth of the Clippers - Air & Space Magazine
Glenn L. Martin made his reputation building big bombers for the air forces of the world. In 1933, he won the Collier Trophy for his spectacular B-10, renowned for being speedier than the fighters of its day. Juan Trippe made his reputation building Pan American World Airways into an airline that, for a time, was the United States’ unofficial flag carrier. Trippe and his group of investors initially aimed their expansion south toward ...
75th anniversary of historic flight from SF Bay - San Francisco Examiner
The Alameda Naval Air Museum is leading a re-enactment of radio broadcasts for the flight's bon voyage, which drew more than 25000 spectators to Alameda at ...
Corsair Recovered From Lake from AVwebFlash Current Issue
The wreck of an F4U-1 Corsair that sank in Lake Michigan in June 1943 has been recovered by a crew working with the National Naval Aviation Museum, based in Pensacola, Fla. "It's a very significant airplane, because it represents an era in American history when we were training pilots for overseas duty," said Chuck Greenhill, a military aircraft collector who helped to finance the recovery mission. Greenhill told the ...
The aviation opportunities I had before I was even old enough to drive as a result of my dad's love for flying were pretty amazing. For example, to just scratch the surface, I was at the Reno Air Races 1968 thru 1970 (I was born in 1961), and at the last EAA Rockford fly-in in 1969 as well as the new Oshkosh location in 1970, and he taught me to fly at 13 in the brand new 1973 Citabria 7KCAB he bought... by the time I soloed in a ...
That flying feeling... from Air Facts Online Column
I am sure that student pilots today view some things about flying as somewhat mysterious. I sure did
when I was a student pilot, years ago.There was a legendary duster (agricultural) pilot at a nearby airport. His name was Ray Jackson. When crop dusting was out of season, Ray instructed and flew charter and did whatever else was needed.
Cessna T-50 "Bamboo Bomber"Ray was returning to his base with some passengers in a Cessna T-50, or, Bamboo Bomber. A twin, of wood structure (thus the name) and fabric covering, this Cessna was rather big and heavy for ...
VIDEO: RAF Harrier jets visit site of the first test flight after 50 years hovered from CavokBlog
Two Harrier aircraft GR.9 Royal Air Force visited the Dunsfold Park airfield in the UK on November 18 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first attempt at hovering flight performed by the prototype of the Harrier, the P.1127 "Kestrel". ...
Jews in Aviation takes off from General Aviation News
Pilot Howard Cooper from Maplewood, N.J., co-founded Jews in Aviation in 2009 to share his love of flying with other Jewish pilots. “There are organizations for Jewish hikers, bowlers, lawyers, doctors, police officers and motorcycle riders,” said Cooper. The organization plans to hold its first fly-in next year in Monticello, N.Y. ...
November 22 from Cut and Paste Aviation
Bob's Take: High-flying life makes its way to film - WORLD-HERALD STAFF
He was a Union Pacific porter, a pro football player and an insurance underwriter before he took up hot-air ballooning. In his spare time, he's a photojournalist.
Soon he'll be the star of a movie about his high-flying life, thanks to his filmmaking daughter.
Bill Costen, 63, who grew up in Omaha, says he's the first black commercial hot-air balloon pilot. He's been making a living flying balloons full time for 28 years. ...
Shirley wing walker Tom Lackey breaks his own world record - Birmingham Mail
Tom, who also holds the record for being the oldest person to wing walk across the English Channel, first took to his adventures ten years ago after the ...
AIRMENTORS! The Best Way to Learn from Flight To Success
31 years of flying. 8 Airlines, 7 Type ratings. New procedures. New planes. That's my flying life. When I got my 727 type rating I had under 500 hours total time. I'd been a second officer for 12 years, but easily transitioned to the Boeing 744. I'd been off for 22 months with a hip replacement and upon my return I jumped into the A330 with a brand new airline. Different technology than I'd been use to, and new ...
Local pilot lauded for helping youths fly like Young Eagles - Indiana Gazette
The names of the pilots and the participants are included in the “World's Largest Logbook,” which is on display at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh, ...
Image of the Day: Space Shuttle Balloon from Flight Image of the Day
This week's Image of the Week (featured on page 5 of Flight International), is taken by AirSpace user apgphoto (Paul Dopson). Paul's photo depicts the Aeromagic Space Shuttle-shaped balloon, which Paul photographed in July 2009 at the Lorraine Mondial Air Balloons held at Chambley in France. Paul says, "This was the morning when 329 balloons took off!" ...
In the Age of Spaceplanes - Air & Space Magazine
Stories from the shuttle astronauts, in their own words.
FAA gives SpaceX the first-ever commercial license for spacecraft reentry from Engadget
Well, SpaceX just scored a huge milestone in space travel for the proletariat: we get to come back now. The FAA just gave SpaceX's Dragon capsule a reentry license, paving the way for it to make round trips to the International Space Station and eventually even take people up there. NASA, who already has some ...
Space Shuttle Discovery Repaired for Final Voyage from SPACE.com
NASA's space shuttle Discovery is all patched up for its planned final launch into space next week, NASA officials said today.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Indy Transponder 21-NOV-2010 1230z
Blue Angels' new top pilot takes reins - Pensacola News Journal | A day after flying his final air show, Blue Angels No. 1 pilot Capt. Greg McWherter passed the torch to Cmdr. Dave Koss, who will lead the Blues into the ...
Pilot who ejected found safe - TheChronicleHerald.ca ... to ground the demonstration team's fighter jets for the remainder of the year, although CF-18s have continued to fly at air shows in non-aerobatic roles…
Ghanaian woman wants to compete at World Aerobatic Championships - Myjoyonline.com | Young Ghanaian female flight engineer, Patricia Mawuli Nyekudzi says she wants to compete at premier aviation sport, the World Aerobatic Championships. ...
More Video Of The Crazy Cool Akromaniac Sean Tucker by Martt | A great sequence of video on Sean Tucker shot for a TV station in Houston…
Ceremony to mark 75th anniversary of China Clipper debut - Sacramento Bee | As part of today's commemoration, Ed Schneider, a member of the Alameda Naval Air Museum, will direct a simulated radio re-enactment of the flight that's ...
B-17 story a tale of courage and goodness amid horror - Long Beach Press-Telegram | After a bombing mission over Germany, an Eighth Air Force B-17, dubbed "Ye Olde Pub" by its crew, was trying to limp back to its base in Kimbolton, England. ...
Age hasn't slowed Carthage aviator - Joplin Globe | By Luke Taylor news@joplinglobe.com On Saturday, he continued the annual tradition of flying a plane on his birthday, and he has no intention of stopping ...
The Fouga Magister in use in Belgian Air Force from Let Let Let - Warplanes by Daniel | On September 28th, 1958 the Belgian Governement decided to buy 45 Fouga Magisters for the air base of Kamina (Belgian Congo) where the student pilots were trained for the advanced flight. There were replacing the old T-6 Harvards… It is interesting that the Fougas were sometimes nicknamed "the Belgian submarines" because of the periscope/episcope permitting the monitor (backseater) to see in front of the aircraft…
WND TV - WND.com | Saint drove to Oshkosh to participate in the Experimental Aircraft Association's annual AirVenture, where hundreds of thousands of aviation enthusiasts ...
Brevard 'Young Eagles' get free flights - Central Florida News 13 | Young Eagles Program lets children have a chance to fly in an airplane at no charge. Some kids in Brevard County got to fly Saturday for the very first time ...
NASA event designed to inspire students - Daily Press | More than 280 youngsters attended the conference at the Virginia Air & Space Center on Saturday, where a series of speakers urged them to follow their ...
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010
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Patriots Jet Team Expanding to Six Jets for 2011 - San Francisco Chronicle | The group was founded in 2002 with a mission to entertain air show and special events audiences, while encouraging the nation's youth towards careers in the ...
Alaska military base says F-22 fighter overdue - Washington Post | AP ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A spokeswoman for Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson says an F-22 fighter jet based at the military facility near Anchorage is overdue. ...
USAF F-22A Raptor - Nellis AFB 2010 by Britt Dietz www.warbird-photos.com | Probably my favorite shot of the 2010 Nellis AFB Airshow, and one of my favorite F-22A Raptor shots of all time... and it was all by accident! I'll have a blog post talking about how I got this shot during sunset this week! www.warbird-photos.com/airshows/2010-NellisAFB-2/Nellis10D2_F-22A_Raptor_5297.jpg
75th Anniversary Celebrations Mark China Clipper's First Flight - Business Wire | Ongoing exhibits are open to the general public at the Oakland airport, at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos and at the Alameda Naval Air Museum, ...
J-10 Fighter - Airshow China 2010 from Military Photos by DefenceTalk.com by The Watcher:
Mason Co. native inducted into aviation hall of fame - Lexington Herald Leader | James Graybill, a pilot who has logged more than 33000 flying hours in his career, was inducted into the Kentucky Aviation Hall of Fame on Nov. ...
Picture(s) A Day – Aviation Nation 2010 – Sunday At Nellis AFB from Parrothead Jeff | Sorry for the delay everyone, but I was just flat worn out Sunday night and yesterday wasn't the greatest day, either. I managed to get the pictures for this post edited and the panoramas stitched together, and uploaded, but getting them built into the post and captioned took a bit too much time…
World War II veteran paints 'City of Savannah' B-17 nose art - Savannah Morning News … the World War II veteran painted the nose art on the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum's B-17, the "City of Savannah. ...
History Major's Dream Vacation – Udvar Hazy part II - Reaching ... by Redfokker | It does not look like much, but it is another rare piece of aviation history and I was excited to see it. The airplane/spacecraft geek in me got all weepy in viewing some of the most mundane artifacts of the space race of the 1960s. ...
Airplane Geeks - Episode 123 - Listener Mailbag | Airplane Geeks ... by maxflight | We also have David's This Week in Aviation history segment, the Australia Desk report by Steve and Grant from the Plane Crazy Down Under podcast, and Pieter Johnson's latest Across the Pond segment. Mentions: The World Airport Data App ...
Greatest Generation: James Mulder - WSAV-TV | On October 6th on a bomb run to take out a ball bearing factory in Berlin Mulder's B-17 was shot down. "The two guys in the waist got killed and the guy in ...
Seahawk helicopter retires to Pacific Aviation Museum - Honolulu Star-Advertiser | Its last mission was a short jaunt — from the Marine Corps base at Kaneohe Bay to the Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor this morning. ...
Liberator — Consolidated B-24M walkaround from Travel for Aircraft | The Liberator was a contemporary of Boeing's B-17 Flying Fortress in the European Theater and the unchallenged heavy bomber for the U.S. Army Air Force in the Pacific Theater until the advent of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. The B-24 is one of the most produced airplanes in history, partly because its design better envisioned mass production methods of the day. It was also known to be heavy on the controls and Liberator pilots famously had well developed muscles in their left arms to demonstrate that characteristic…
The Lockheed L-1011 Flies Into It's 40th Year from Flying With Fish | The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar took to the skies for the first time forty years ago today, November 16th 1970. To me is the L-1011 is the airplane that started my love of airplanes, airlines, travel and the smell of jet fuel. The L-1011 was not only an airplane that flew over my house day and night growing up next New York's JFK Airport, it was also the plane that flew me to Grandma (usually Delta and sometimes Eastern). On the windowsill next to my bed I had a collection of little white plastic Delta Air Lines L-1011s collected from every flight…
The Anatomy of the Airbus A380 QF32 near disaster from Plane Talking by Ben Sandilands | The Airbus presentation to accident investigators of the damage done to QF32 on November 4 gives new technical insights into this near disaster involving a Qantas A380 with 466 persons on board. The examination of the damage is far from complete, as the presentation makes clear. It doesn't deal with the other dimensions of this serious incident, which are the loss or impairment of various systems on the giant airliner, and the emerging difficulties the crew faced from fuel load imbalance caused by some of those failures…
'GatwickSpotting' Airliner Videos Are Awesome! by Martt | Jordi Blumberg is GatwickSpotting on youtube, and wow, these are some really awesome videos of airliners at Gatwick Airport, London's second airport. You might have already seen the fabulous slow motion 747 video I posted a while back, and now, I highly suggest you experience these two videos.
Airship Bullet™ Class 580 Successfully Completes 2nd Inflation Test for Pre-Flight Demonstration at NASA Ames Research, Moffett Field from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | -MONTGOMERY AL- E Green Technologies, Inc. / 21st Century Airships today announced that it has successfully completed the 2nd Inflation Test of its Airship, the BulletTM Class 580 at the Montgomery, Alabama Garrett Coliseum. The 1-hour Airship inflation took place inside the Garrett Coliseum, one of the few facilities large enough to host the operation. With the inflation, the mission is to complete pre-flight engineering fit checks for attachments in preparation for the Company's near term maiden flight of the BulletTM Class 580 at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California…
World War II Japanese Balloon Bombs from Air Force Link Top Stories by afnews@dma.mil | On Nov. 3, 1944, the Japanese started launching balloons with bombs attached, hoping the jet stream would carry them eastward across the Pacific to the United States. More than 9,000 of them were released during the war, with approximately 1,000 reaching the destination. The bombs were meant to start forest fires, produce chaos and divert manpower from the war effort in the U.S. They were a reprisal for the Doolittle raid on Tokyo…
Aero-TV: The Voice Of Fiesta -- Glen Moyer's Love Of Ballooning from Aero-News Network | Long-Time Enthusiast Has Become One Of The Voices Of An Amazing Aerial Pursuit The ANN crew has known Glen Moyer for a long time... enjoying his emails and calls with news of the ballooning world, as well as an accompanying passion for all things flight. So... it was no surprise that when we showed up, in force, to cover the extraordinary sights and sounds of the 2010 Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, that Glen Moyer was the principal voice for this lofty gathering.
The Lockheed C-5M Super Galaxy from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | The first production group of Lockheed C-5 Galaxy transports, designated the C-5A, were built in the 1970s and even then, there were issues with the jet's reliability. When the production line was reopened during the Reagan-era defense buildup in the 1980s, the C-5B was produced to introduce a variety of systems improvements aimed at boosting the jet's reliability…
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